The Dallas police department will take its domestic violence case against Johnny Manziel to a grand jury to determine whether the Cleveland Browns quarterback will be indicted for a class A misdemeanor assault, it was announced Thursday afternoon.

"The investigation of the domestic violence assault involving Jonathan Manziel, which occurred on January 30, 2016, has been completed," Dallas police wrote in a statement. "Today, a Class A misdemeanor Assault/Domestic Violence case has been referred to the Dallas County District Attorney’s office for presentation to the grand jury. The Dallas Police Department will not release any details of the investigation while it is pending grand jury presentation."

The case stems from an incident between the former Heisman Trophy winner and his ex-girlfriend Colleen Crowley in Dallas on Jan. 30.

The Browns have indicated that they will release Manziel next month. In an interview with TMZ, Manziel denied that he struck Crowley.

In an affidavit seeking a protective order, which was granted by a Tarrant County District judge, Crowley alleged that Manziel forced her into a vehicle and repeatedly struck her, rupturing her eardrum during the early morning hours of Jan. 30.

Dallas police spokesperson Maj. Midge Boyle has said that investigators have reviewed medical records provided by Crowley. Police also said they have reviewed video surveillance from that night, though they did not disclose the nature of the video.

Crowley said in a four-page affidavit that the two began arguing in Manziel’s room in Hotel ZaZa in Dallas around 1:45 a.m. before he brought her to the hotel valet and forced her into his car.

“Please don’t let him take me,” she claims to have told the valet. “I’m scared for my life!”

Manziel drove her to her car and, she says, then forced her into the passenger seat. As Manziel backed her car out of the parking spot, Crowley recalled, she jumped out of the car and fled, hiding behind nearby bushes.

She alleged that Manziel went after her, grabbed her by her hair and forced her back into the car.

“He hit me with his open hand on my left ear for jumping out of the car,” Crowley wrote in the affidavit. “I realized immediately that I could not hear out of that ear, and I still cannot today, two days later.”

Inside the vehicle, Crowley said, she hit Manziel several times in self defense and that he “threw me off of him,” causing Crowley’s head to collide with the car window.

As Manziel drove Crowley to her Fort Worth apartment, she claims, he told her, “’Shut up or I’ll kill us both!’ Then I started begging him not to kill me and he immediately responded, ‘I would never kill you. You don’t deserve that. I would only kill myself.’”

This is the latest incident involving Manziel. He was also pulled over by police in Ohio in October after an altercation with Crowley while driving on an interstate. He acknowledged that he had been drinking earlier in the day. He was not arrested and not disciplined by the NFL for that incident.

After the Jan. 30 incident was initially reported, the Browns issued a statement indicating they are likely to part ways with Manziel.

Browns coach Hue Jackson indicated as much in his statements at the NFL scouting combine on Wednesday.

“His future on our team will be addressed here pretty soon,” Jackson said of Manziel. “But let me say this: I think it’s really important that obviously there were some people involved in the situation that happened and I feel very bad about those things as they do happen.

“But I want to make sure we all understand that that behavior will not be tolerated as we move forward, and that’s all I want to say about it. Our organization is going to take a stand, and we’re going to move on from those kind of situations as we move forward.”

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